It Makes Me a Mother

Sometimes I wonder if people get sick of seeing my blog posts/pictures about Lily on Facebook or anywhere else. It makes me cringe to think of people thinking of Lily as "the dead baby" and me as "the gal with the dead baby."

It used to bother me thinking if people were tired of hearing about her after all these years. But, then it recently occurred to me, if people really think that, they aren't genuine, true friends. And I don't care to be "Facebook friends" with them anyways. I don't mean to sound harsh, I just really don't care to be "friends" with people who think Lily wasn't a real child and that I should be "over this." I really don't care what people think about me. I will never be just like everyone else, so I won't worry too much about what I appear to be to other people.

Lily is still very much a part of my life because she will always be my daughter, even though she passed away. That doesn't make me crazy, it makes me a mother.